Winter Olympics: Canada rules rink; Games end (PHOTOS)

SOCHI, Russia — The Olympic flame was snuffed out. No chance of that for the Canadian hockey team, champions again.

The Associated Press

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SOCHI, Russia — The Olympic flame was snuffed out. No chance of that for the Canadian hockey team, champions again.

The Sochi Games completed a 17-day run Sunday with Canada's 3-0 victory vs. Sweden in the men's hockey final, the last of 98 gold medal events.

The end of the $51 billion extravaganza came on a day when Russia captured the medals race, and IOC president Thomas Bach lauded the host city for its "amazing" transformation.

The fifth and sixth doping cases surfaced, involving NHL and Sweden star Nicklas Backstrom — by far the standout name of the group — and Austrian cross-country skier Johannes Duerr.

The Canadians won gold for the third time in the last four Olympics, taking all six of their games in Sochi. Jonathan Toews scored in the first period and captain Sidney Crosby scored his first goal of the tournament in the second.

Alexander Legkov got down to work in a hurry. He led a Russian sweep of the men's 50-kilometer cross-country race. He was followed by Maxim Vylegzhanin and Ilia Chernousov. That assured Russia of finishing with the most medals. "This is priceless," Legkov said. "It's more valuable than my life."

After struggling these last years, Alexander Zubkov set things right. He drove Russia to victory in the four-man sled, adding to his two-man title in Sochi. He is the sixth pilot to sweep those events at an Olympics but the first to do so in his home country. Steven Holcomb, the 2010 Olympic champ, won bronze to give the U.S. seven sliding medals in Sochi, tops among all countries.